Social Data Analytics

Social Data Analytics

An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers is creating a new training program for doctoral students in Big Data Social Science, with the help of a National Science Foundation grant totaling $3 million over five years. "Every day, millions of new human interactions are recorded and millions of old human interactions are digitized, creating massive new sources of data about cooperation, conflict and every social behavior in between," said Burt Monroe, associate professor of political science and director of the Big Data Social Science project at Penn State. "There is a great opportunity here, but no single scientific discipline has all of the tools necessary to meet the challenges."